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DUFUR — Jade Wilcoxson doubled up on stage wins and solidified her overall lead Saturday morning at the stage 2 Dufur Time Trial of the 2011 Water’s Edge Cherry Blossom Cycling Classic, while Ian McKissick repeated his 2010 time trial win and rode into the leader’s jersey.

Highwinds were the order of the day as the course that ran through the exposed orchards and wheat fields around Dufur offered little respite from the gusting, bitterly cold wind. The out-and-back course greeted riders with incessant crosswinds and headwinds that tossed them across the road as they made their way toward the turnaround 5.5 miles away. The return trip was another story, with riders sailing down the same roads at 40 mph or more.

The men’s Pro/1/2 raceturned into a battle of experience against youth, with veteran rider and former BMC pro Ian McKissick (Audi) winning by 29 seconds in front of Hammer/CMG junior Colby Wait-Molyneux. Mckissick takes over the leader’s jersey won yesterday by 16-year-old Logan Owen (Hagens Berman),who finished 14th in the time trial, 2:23 back.

Keller Rohrback’sJames Strangeland improved his overall chances with a third-place finish, just over a minute slower than McKissick, who now leads Wait-Molyneux by 29 seconds in the overall battle.

Owen, who had hoped to limit his losses to around a minute Saturday morning, said battling the wind was the tough.

“Thebiggest wind I’ve ever been in,” Owen said. “It was tough. I wished I’dhad a bigger gear on the way back. I lost a lot of time there. I just went hard as I could to the turnaround.”

The racing continues Saturday evening with the Cherry City Criterium. The Cat 4 women start things off at 5 p.m.

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Audi is set to unveil an attractive technical study – the A3 concept – at the Geneva Motor Show. The four-seat notchback sedan integrates the full breadth of the brand’s technological expertise – from the improved MMI operating system, to the high-tech infotainment system, to the drivetrain.

Lightweight construction has long been a top priority at Audi; it is one of the pillars of the brand. As the pioneer of the self-supporting aluminum body, Audi is the worldwide leader in the field of lightweight construction.

AUDI AG and Voith GmbH signed a letter of intent regarding a development partnership today. The goal of the partnership is to promote industrialization of fiber-reinforced materials, particularly through developing a highly automated process chain for high-volume automotive production.

The Audi vehicle networking strategy has a name: Audi connect. Audi is using this term to bundle all of the applications and developments that link current and future models with the Internet with their owners and with the infrastructure.